Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, November 29, 2013

Cervical artery dissection: a biomechanical perspective

Complete and total apologist for the chiropractic profession. I will never get my neck adjusted. These guys will say anything to not take responsibility.
I won't have this done for these reasons;
1. Call for age limit after chiropractor breaks baby's neck
2. 'My chiropractor gave me locked-in syndrome, but I survived': Astonishing recovery of woman, 46, who beat the odds to walk and talk  again
3. Woman claims stroke stems from spinal manipulation by chiropractor
4. Comparing chiropractic neck adjustment to hanging
5.  Mitchell, SD chiropractor denies causing Gunkel's stroke
6.  Cerebrospinal fluid leak secondary to chiropractic manipulation
7.  Chiropractor forged consent form after patient's stroke
8.  Letting a chiropractor 'crack' your neck to ease pain could trigger stroke
9.  Deaths after chiropractic: a review of published cases.
10.  Chiropractic stroke

The  apologist here:
Cervical artery dissection: a biomechanical perspective
276
J Can Chiropr
Assoc 2013; 57(4)
Commentary
Introduction
Although there has been a putative ??? link between cervical
spinal manipulative treatment (cSMT) and cervical artery
dissection (CAD) ever since Thornton’s report in the literature in 19341
, recent evidence suggests that this is an association rather than a causal relationship. Since 2008, several studies published by Cassidy and co-workers2-4
have attributed the association between cSMT and CAD
to patients seeking chiropractic care for neck pain and
headaches during the prodrome ??? of a stroke.
Most reviews in the literature now generally report
that there are no convincing data, either to prove or disprove, any causality between cSMT and CAD5. (really?)

However, case reports and case series still accumulate that identify
chiropractic as the sole cause of CAD6-7.

Furthermore, Tuchin8 recently tested the causality between CAD and SMT using Hill’s criteria, and concluded that there is no evidence that SMT is causally related to stroke. Nevertheless, some authors continue to claim that cSMT causes CAD.
Rather than using an epidemiologic approach to assess
the risk of whether cSMT can cause CAD, another approach is to investigate the mechanism(s) of how cSMT can cause CAD. Since 20029, our laboratory has focused on the latter strategy. Using cadaveric vertebral arteries (VAs) as a model for the in vivo neck, we have measured
the strains experienced by VAs using ultrasonography to dynamically measure the changes in VA segment lengths during manipulative procedures. The details of the experimental procedures have been described elsewhere9-11.
We have now replicated these experiments on a total of 16 VAs obtained from 10 cadavers9-11 in 3 different papers. 
You can read the rest of the blathering at the link.

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